Sec. 29-6a. Use of official hat and insignia of state police.
Sec. 29-6a. Use of official hat and insignia of state police. (a) The Commissioner
of Public Safety shall cause to be filed with the Secretary of the State a drawing or
photograph and a worded description of the official hat and insignia to be worn by state
policemen while on duty.
(b) Thereafter no policeman shall wear or use in public such official hat or insignia,
or any imitation, reproduction or facsimile thereof, except a duly appointed member of
the Division of State Police within the Department of Public Safety authorized by the
Commissioner of Public Safety to wear such hat or insignia.
(c) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be fined not more
than two hundred and fifty dollars.
(1967, P.A. 594; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610.)
History: P.A. 77-614 made state police department a division within the department of public safety and replaced
commissioner of state police with commissioner of public safety, effective January 1, 1979.